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How popular is “Karson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karson” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Karson” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Karson” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Karson” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Karson” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Karson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karson” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 -100%
1980 17 0.000004935 5 12 -41%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 -100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 17 0.000004715 17 -100%
1988 27 0.000007307 27 -100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 -100%
1990 34 0.000008602 11 23 -35%
1991 56 0.000014376 25 31 -11%
1992 93 0.000024211 43 50 -8%
1993 95 0.000025197 48 47 1%
1994 113 0.000030396 46 67 -19%
1995 103 0.000028126 37 66 -28%
1996 126 0.000034547 45 81 -29%
1997 129 0.000035579 51 78 -21%
1998 152 0.000041324 51 101 -33%
1999 255 0.000069033 105 150 -18%
2000 326 0.000086246 88 238 -46%
2001 343 0.000091628 89 254 -48%
2002 332 0.000088811 62 270 -63%
2003 421 0.000110722 85 336 -60%
2004 421 0.000110183 67 354 -68%
2005 455 0.00011834 77 378 -66%
2006 504 0.000127395 54 450 -79%
2007 520 0.000130075 47 473 -82%
2008 616 0.000156716 50 566 -84%
2009 678 0.000177479 59 619 -83%
2010 828 0.000224042 68 760 -84%
2011 878 0.000240036 65 813 -85%
2012 901 0.000246352 63 838 -86%
2013 1054 0.00028911 75 979 -86%
2014 1092 0.000294627 53 1039 -90%
2015 1292 0.000349103 66 1226 -90%
2016 1188 0.000323821 84 1104 -86%
2017 1332 0.000372463 64 1268 -90%
2018 1412 0.000401604 68 1344 -90%
2019 1383 0.000398452 55 1328 -92%
2020 1342 0.000401727 53 1289 -92%
2021 1137 0.000335601 47 1090 -92%
2022 1043 0.000308294 57 986 -89%
2023 1036 0.000312878 49 987 -91%
2024 864 0.000259576 51 813 -88%

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